James Fee GIS Blog

Gary Sherman announces on the QGIS developer blog that the open source desktop GIS QGIS 0.8 has been released. The average QGIS user will have to wait a couple days though:
At present this is primarily a source release for those that want to build QGIS. Packages for most Linux distributions, Windows, and Mac OS [...]

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I see Sean updated his Planet Geospatial Scrubber Greasemonkey script. This is a great resource for those who don’t like some feeds showing up in Planet Geospatial You might not be interested in Google Earth, so you could block all Ogle Earth and Google Earth Blog posts from showing up. Just [...]

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No sooner than I post that ArcIMS 9.2 Service Pack 1 is out, the rest shows up on the ESRI Support site. Remember you need to download the separate ArcIMS and ArcSDE service packs even if you download the ArcGIS service pack. ESRI posted last week what was fixed in Service Pack 1, [...]

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I never got to post it, but NASA Worldwind 1.4RC was released on December 23rd. I think Chad has been bugging me to post about it for a couple of days, but I’ve been kind of oblivious to his proding.
Since we all love to know what is new, here is the [...]

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There has been a ton of discussion about scripting in GIS in this thread. No matter what GIS platform you use, at some point you are writing a script to accomplish some sort of geoprocessing task. For me it was all AML until Python showed up. I never got into the VBScript/JScript [...]

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Merry Christmas Everyone!
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My son is very excited and can’t wait. We’ve been tracking Santa all morning. One of my young nephews asked why Santa’s workshop isn’t at the North Pole. I was surprised by the question and asked how he knew that. He said his Dad had been showing him the GE Santa [...]

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I’ve been tagged by a couple of people so I guess I’d better join the party. Here are five things you probably didn’t know about me unless you are related to me.
1. The main reason I picked Arizona State University for my degree in Geography was the golf course.
2. I am claustrophobic [...]

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Looks like Blogger is out of beta. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it doesn’t SPAM Planet Geospatial.

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Arizona is now the fastest growing state. Let me just tell everyone thinking of moving here that the State is full. There is no more room anymore and we are beginning to stack people in the Grand Canyon. A friend in Nevada says that they are crying in the streets over losing [...]

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Finally I can say I’m done working for the year! In the spirit of the season enjoy one my favorite Christmas classics:
http://www.youtube.com/v/KGnYw-OuCnI
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Wondering if ArcGIS 9.2 SP1 will address your problem? Check out ESRI’s ArcGIS 9.2 Service Pack 1 - Announcement page and find out.
The first ArcGIS 9.2 service pack, ArcGIS 9.2 SP1 is planned to be available as a download to the public late the week of December 25, 2006. This service pack is to [...]

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We GIS Pros are making little girls cry with our efforts to get GIS tools to the common man.
Virginia sits at the computer and heads straight to the North Pole. OK, that looks plausible. Official NASA watermark on the image. There’s his workshop, a runway and his reindeer and sleigh waiting. But what’s that [...]

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Rusty Planet reports that ESRI Tech Support is saying that Service Pack 1 for ArcGIS 9.2 will be delayed until after Christmas.
The Tech Support operator did say that ESRI plans on releasing the Service Pack next week (week of December 25th).

THERE IS NO SERVICE PACK HERE, NOW GO AWAY!
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It has been quite a year here on my blog. Looking back at the stats I’ve pulled out the top 10 posts by popularity (number of comments, visits, trackbacks) and have listed them below.
10. The big picture of ArcGIS Server
Here I try and convince the world that with ESRI supporting OGC and other “open [...]

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From the AGIC-L email list:
The City of Scottsdale is seeking GIS users from the Arizona community who are developing Web applications in MapGuide and who may have begun to use the new MapGuide 2007 environment.
We at the City of Scottsdale have just begun this exciting endeavor and were wondering if there are users [...]

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Something I just learned about yesterday, but I’m sure some of the SDSFIE users might already know about. It looks like there is finally a great resource for implementing SDSFIE, a portal page. I hadn’t seen a link to it before and found it via Google (but today it appears to be on [...]

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Yep, I’ve decided that hosting my own blog isn’t for me anymore and I’ve already moved to Wordpress.com for my “host”.  The URL has changed and all the permalinks are exactly the same.  Now I don’t have to worry about updates or why my host changed something that broke Wordpress.  It is somehow relaxing knowing [...]

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I’ve been holding back on this post trying to figure out what has changed since I last thought I understood ArcGIS 9.2 licensing. David Maguire goes into a pretty detailed post about ArcGIS Server 9.2’s Business Model.
Basically what we’ve though about the cost of licensing the ADF on another server is less than I [...]

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I feel like I have to forget everything I know about using GIS when I’m in Manifold. I’ll be honest, I can’t figure anything out without the help. Everything I know seems to be done differently. Based on a couple of folks suggestion, I’m going to be going over the GISAdvisor videos [...]

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